• #068 - Should you trust tech influencers? feat. Charles The III

  • Aug 26 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
  • Podcast

#068 - Should you trust tech influencers? feat. Charles The III

  • Summary

  • Today we welcome Chuck Carpenter aka Charles The 3rd, co-host at Whiskey Web and Whatnot.


    As two content creators in the tech scene, we discuss if and how celebrity developers and tech influencers are a good thing for the community, how we should be careful when choosing technologies based on influencers’ opinions, why so many people nowadays want to speedrun their whole career and how that could be self-sabotage, and a lot more!


    Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev

    Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm


    Whiskey Web and Whatnot: https://whiskey.fm/

    Charles' X/Twitter: https://x.com/charleswthe3rd


    Timestamps:


    00:00 Intro

    01:27 Does Charles listen to his own podcast episodes?

    03:33 Are celebrity developers a good thing?

    09:11 Podcasts are usually centered around a business

    10:06 We are essentially entertainers

    14:04 Tech choices being influenced by creators

    17:37 Why ThePrimeagen stood out from other tech influencers

    20:26 Career speedrunning

    23:44 The biggest miss when starting something

    24:51 What is wrong with Full-Stack application frameworks?

    29:03 How Frankenstein is the Boot.dev web application stack

    37:41 Rolling your own stuff vs using a provider

    46:01 It's easy to screw up your architecture

    50:53 What is Charles building with in 2024 and what is his preferred stack

    56:39 Does it seem like people don't talk about security anymore?

    01:00:30 Accessibility

    01:02:02 The amount of people that are "kinda" interested in cybersecurity

    01:11:03 Have some patience

    01:11:37 Where to find Charles


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